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Title: | Cadastral Politics: The Making of Community-Based Resource Management in Zimbabwe and Mozambique |
Author: | Hughes, David MacDermott |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | Development and Change |
Volume: | 32 |
Issue: | 4 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 741-768 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Mozambique Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | natural resource management wildlife protection Politics and Government Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7660.00224 |
Abstract: | Projects promoting community-based management of natural resources frequently encourage local smallholders to share flora, fauna, or land forms with State agencies and/or private companies. Ideals of common property and moral economy have inspired this agenda and helped spread it globally. This article recounts the rise and fall of a Campfire (Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources) project in Vhimba, eastern Zimbabwe. There, cadastral politics - struggles over the bounding and control of land - overwhelmed negotiations for joint management and eco-tourism. Across the border, in Mozambique, community-based resource management has engaged with cadastral politics in a more fruitful fashion. The Mozambican project in Gogoi mapped smallholders' claims to land while the Zimbabwean project ignored territorial conflict and ultimately succumbed to it. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |